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Half of all Indigenous people in Canada live in cities.

What challenges do they face? How can we help them?

 What would a truly inclusive Indigenous City look like?

 Ginger Gosnell-Myers is a Fellow at the Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue at Simon Fraser University. She is also the Chair of the Board of Greenpeace Canada.

 Gosnell-Myers sees herself neither as an academic nor as an urban planner but rather as a storyteller. She seeks “to use my skills in dialogue and engagement – and in research – to give everybody a picture of the Indigenous City.”

 A member of the Nisga’a and Kwakwaka’wakw Nations, Gosnell-Myers was the City of Vancouver’s first Indigenous Relations Manager. She played an instrumental role in Vancouver becoming the world’s first official City of Reconciliation and to its Canada 150 celebrations paying homage to Indigenous history and culture.

 Thanks to Gosnell-Myers’ leadership, the City of Vancouver has recognized and implemented  28 of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action. It has incorporated the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples into all aspects of city planning.

 Please join the Salt Spring Forum in discussion with one of Canada’s most influential and action-oriented Indigenous leaders—the truly inspiring Ginger Gosnell-Myers.